1) HOW DOES LARA CROFT GET HER GUNS THROUGH CUSTOMS?
She gets around a bit, that Lara Croft, and she doesn't seem to go anywhere without her pistols. We can only deduce that Croft has a pair of expensive Italian-made ceramic guns that do not register when she walks through the metal detector. Either that or she buys new ones whenever she gets to a new country. If so, this begs the question: where did she make her contacts on the international arms market?

2) WHY DOESN'T SONIC THE HEDGEHOG GET SICK WHEN HE SPINS AROUND?
Just try spinning on your head for a moment or two - go on. It doesn't feel too good, does it? Perhaps the genetic experimentation that produced Sonic's blue hue and red sneakers also adapted his inner ear to cope with high-speed rotation.

3) WHY ARE FOOTBALL GAME COMMENTARIES SO AWFUL?
You would have thought that four years after the introduction of real-time spoken commentary in football games that developers would have got it right. But no - still we get Barry Davies exclaming "Oh, he's going to regret that" after you've just scored in Actua Soccer. We suspect that games publishers are only continuing to include football commentaries in games out of irony.

4) HOW DID NINTENDO GET THE EUROPEAN LAUNCH OF THE NINTENDO 64 SO VERY, VERY WRONG?
The Sony PlayStation was given the most successful launch of any games console ever. The Nintendo 64 messed up big time. It's taken months for Nintendo's official UK distributor THE Games to get the format - which we acknowledge boasts some of the best games ever made - back on track. Perhaps Nintendo wasn't aware of the presence of the Saturn and PlayStation at the time, and though it was launching the machine into a market previously untouched by video games.

5) WHY DID EVERYBODY START HATING SEGA SO MUCH?
Actually, this isn't so much of a mystery. It's common knowledge that Sega upset its loyal fan base with the unecessary release of the Mega CD and 32X - an error that the firm itself will admit to. Even so, the spectacular decline of the Saturn has surprised many - and no one more so than Sega itself, which appears to be repeating its mistakes by accidentally announcing the imminent release of a follow-up console.

6) WHY DOES MARIO HAVE A BIG, DROOPY MOUSTACHE AND WEAR THAT HAT?
Don't act innocent - you know what we're talking about.

7) WHY IS THE PLAYSTATION SO SMALL, AND THE SATURN SO BIG?
The PlayStation is supposedly the more powerful console of the two - so why does it look like a small, grey book, while the Saturn is the size of a Volkswagen Beatle?

8) WHO KEEPS BUYING THE FIFA SOCCER GAMES?
It's generally acknowledged that about three years ago, EA Sports' FIFA series took a nose-dive in terms of quality. It's a widely- reported fact that the games were not crowd pleasers. Even so, without a single review appearing anywhere, the newest edition of the game - FIFA Road To The World Cup 98 - entered the charts right at the top.

9) WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE IRON MAIDEN GAME THAT WAS PLANNED A YEAR OR SO BACK?
Not the greatest mystery ever, perhaps, but we're still curious.

10) WHY IS IT THAT DIGITISER IS SO GREAT AND OTHER GAMES' MAGAZINES ARE NOT?

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